Ensign George Gay after his torpedo missed its mark, did not turn away from course. He found himself flying stern to bow just above the flight deck of of his target. He later wrote that he could see the rearming Japanese aircraft right below him. He was almost tempted to crash his torpedo plane on the deck to take the carrier out of action. He did not do so and later got a sea level view of the destruction of 4 of the 6 IJN flattops used at Pearl Harbor.
He must have been embellishing his story a little bit - unlike US procedures, Japanese strike aircraft were loaded below decks in the hangar. The flight deck was kept clear until they were actually ready to launch a strike so that the CAP could land and refuel/reload and then take off again. TL;DR - if he says he saw them loading bombs/torpedoes on the flight deck, he's lying.
There was more cover that day. It helped conceal the dive bombers long enough to prevent their early detection and identification by the escort ships which could have resulted in the Japanese fighter combat air patrol being alerted earlier and breaking up the attacks.
Very well done! The relatively mild AA fire provided by those weak 25mm batteries, the almost empty deck, the liveries of Best's planes, no loud fireworks to gratify the audience...i think this is how it must have looked in reality. The only wrong thing that jumps to the eye is that blue transverse stripe on the Zeroes... Never mind, i think this is the first truly realistic reconstruction of those fateful three minutes i've ever seen! 👍
The important part of this sequence is Lt. Best's realization that Cdr. McClusky has accidentally sent the entire wing after a single carrier, and redirects his own flight of 3 dive bombers against Akagi. Without orders, and totally on his own initiative. This isn't portrayed in the video.
Also didn't include the fact that Best's bomb set off a chain reaction in the hangar; this video just shows him punching one clean hole in the flight deck, with no suggestion of how effective that one bomb was. I'm pretty sure Lt. Best is the only pilot in history to single-handedly sink an aircraft carrier ...
Have you read "The Battle of Midway" by Craig L. Symonds? It's an amazing account of this extraordinary battle, tracing all the intersecting lines of action that converged on the most mindblowing 5 minutes in military history (IMHO). The amazing "Shattered Sword" (by Jonathan Parshall & Anthony P. Tully) is even more meticulously researched and detailed but I personally prefer the narrative flow that Symonds presents. Awesome animation btw. I came for Starship renders and here I am watching Midway LOL!
Sure and I agree it was an important, critical victory...but the Battle of the Coral Sea prevented the attack against and set up for the invasion of Australia. If I were asked which battle was more pivotal I'd have to say Midway, but the Battle of the Coral Sea saved Australia and set up the Battle of Midway.
Read "Shattered Sword" with extreme caution. The authors left much pertinent information out of their work which directly contradicts the central revelation of their book- namely, that all of the Japanese attack aircraft were in the hangars of the carriers when the dive bomber attack began. Only Akagi had all of her attack aircraft in her hangars. Additionally, their primary source- Senshi Sosho- is 'not' the official history which they claim it to be, as it was neither commissioned nor endorsed by the Japanese government. In fact, Senshi Sosho predominantly represents the view of Japanese veterans.
Good job showing the results of the bomb drops. From the hit and near misses, the 3 planes dove in formation or close to it. Best was the only hit, the center plane. His wingman to the left missed off the bow, his wingman to the right a VERY near miss at the stern near the rudders. Best's hit set off the raging fires, the near miss at the rudders doing a lot of damage to the steering gear with Akagi becoming unmanageable. 3 pilots doomed the Akagi, quite a feat. Kaga got attacked by all the rest, a deluge of bombs.
Young Japanese and American men in June 1942=Fighting each other in a fight to the death over an ocean full of sharks. Seriously, my hat is off to the guys on both sides.
You are correct, that stood out to me also. The only American planes at Midway marked like this were some of the B-17s that flew from Midway. Watch John Fords Battle of Midway. Some of the early B17s (green over grey) have the February 26 1941 insignia (meatball painted out) in 4 positions, while others have the updated 6 position markings. The "Hawaiian Camouflaged" planes all have the 6 position markings and one clearly as the tail stripes painted out. Video has great closeups of markings as well as the Marine Vindicators with various markings. Note Vindicator #2 which was flown by Captain Richard Fleming during his attack on IJN Mikuma. He and gunner KIA, received MoH.
Excellent! I appreciate the accurate portrayal of how widely spaced the ships of the Japanese fleet were. Some depictions show them all tightly bunched.
Great video! However, unlike the US Navy, the Japanese still did not have radar installed on their aircraft carriers, which proved fatal in the Battle of Midway!
As predicted by the USN and RN in interwar war games(when ship borne radar wasn't yet a thing), visual lookouts and CAP didnt provide enough warning time to reinforce the CAP enough against a carrier strike
There were a few aircraft on the deck preparing to rotate into Akagi's Combat Air Patrol. What there wasn't was a "deck full of planes" as described by Fuchida.
This is an insane and epic video! Its also one of the only on youtube featuring Richard Best during Midway, his heroic actions were incredible at the battle of midway
Absolutely amazing! Makes me want to play civ 5. Also, thanks for uploading in 21:9. Can't tell you how frustrating it is when people create/film stuff in 21:9, then reduce it to 16:9 and throw in black bars. The struggles of an ultrawide monitor user...
Sorry to pick nits. But a ship as large and heavy as a aircraft carrier leaves a much larger wake. Hell a "tin can" at speed kicksup one heck of a wake.
Wow Incredible Better than the latest Hollywood flick At this time- the US Navy had the insignia on 6 places ( both wings top and bottom) and fuselage But all that aside More please !
This is some of the best best shit I've seen absolutely amazing I fought in Iraq and Afghanistan numerous times and could attest I lived a life that 100s of millions of so called Americans haven't a clue to be and see some real shit best years of my life SEMPER FIDELIS USMC SGT Matthew z
His wingman dropped his bomb just off the rear off the carrier which caused enough battle damage to the rudder to keep it circling and this was left out! Why?
That bomb is in the video. It’s the one that bends the rear portion of the flight deck up. The shockwave from that bomb jammed the rudder into the right hand evasive turn the Akagi was in during the attack.
The AKAGI was 855 feet long, in this animation, the full length passes the camera in 6 seconds, that 855/6 = 142.5 feet per second, in one hour she would have gone 513,000 feet or 97.16 miles, in an hour, her listed top speed unladen was 36.2 mph so this animation has her going 3 times faster than possible, when unladen, and she was laden. your welcome, signed, reality checking in (also the planes dove with the sun behind them)
A small but important inaccuracy...while most historians assign the "turning of the tide" to Midway, the Battle of the Coral Sea, while a tactical Japanese victory, was actually a strategic victory for the Allies.
IMHO the Japanese lost WW2 at Pearl Harbor. There was no way that they could win against the industrial might of the US and they underestimated the US resolve to avenge what they considered a treacherous attack.
I read somewhere that the SBD pointed 90 degrees straight down, but the lift from the wings made the actual trajectory about 70 degrees. Can't recall the reference.
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This is how it looked in my head when playing 1942: Pacific Air War Gold as a kid on PC.
Without the escorts
Excellent work. Really loved the POV views from the planes especially looking down a the carrier and seeing plane take off.
Loved this pls make more.
Ensign George Gay after his torpedo missed its mark, did not turn away from course. He found himself flying stern to bow just above the flight deck of of his target. He later wrote that he could see the rearming Japanese aircraft right below him. He was almost tempted to crash his torpedo plane on the deck to take the carrier out of action. He did not do so and later got a sea level view of the destruction of 4 of the 6 IJN flattops used at Pearl Harbor.
He must have been embellishing his story a little bit - unlike US procedures, Japanese strike aircraft were loaded below decks in the hangar. The flight deck was kept clear until they were actually ready to launch a strike so that the CAP could land and refuel/reload and then take off again.
TL;DR - if he says he saw them loading bombs/torpedoes on the flight deck, he's lying.
@@DarthAveragei forgot about this little fact about the Japanese procedures at the time, thank you for reminding!
@@DarthAverageI assume he was talking about the CAP zeros, one of the photographs taken by the b-17s you can spot 3 on the deck
2:37 'That was a beauty, sir!"
Top notch! Excellent work and artistry. My only complaint was I wanted more!!! Bravo encore!
There was more cover that day. It helped conceal the dive bombers long enough to prevent their early detection and identification by the escort ships which could have resulted in the Japanese fighter combat air patrol being alerted earlier and breaking up the attacks.
Lt. Best was a friend of mine. Still miss him.
PS-Shattered Sword is the best Midway account that I've read.
I finally found this again! This is one of my favorite animations but I couldn't find in search for years
The Japanese were very arrogant. In fact, so arrogant that they put a giant red target(flag with red dot) on their deck to hit.
ちがいます。珊瑚海海戦で日本海軍の索敵機が夜間に空母に着陸しようとしたところ、それは探していたアメリカの空母であり、対空砲火を受けたという経緯から甲板に国旗を描き、味方が識別できるようにしていました。
@@タラコ-y1z sure
That was sick! Amazing work as usual
Very well done! The relatively mild AA fire provided by those weak 25mm batteries, the almost empty deck, the liveries of Best's planes, no loud fireworks to gratify the audience...i think this is how it must have looked in reality. The only wrong thing that jumps to the eye is that blue transverse stripe on the Zeroes... Never mind, i think this is the first truly realistic reconstruction of those fateful three minutes i've ever seen! 👍
Great video dude!!
Wow magnífica animación
This is got to be some of the best animation I have seen in a long time. It is unbelievably so real.
Beautiful. I was holding my breath the while time.
Awesome render!!
The important part of this sequence is Lt. Best's realization that Cdr. McClusky has accidentally sent the entire wing after a single carrier, and redirects his own flight of 3 dive bombers against Akagi. Without orders, and totally on his own initiative. This isn't portrayed in the video.
Also didn't include the fact that Best's bomb set off a chain reaction in the hangar; this video just shows him punching one clean hole in the flight deck, with no suggestion of how effective that one bomb was. I'm pretty sure Lt. Best is the only pilot in history to single-handedly sink an aircraft carrier ...
@@DarthAverage Best is the only US naval aviator to sink not one but two Japanese carriers. The Akagi and Hiryu.
@@johnmcginnis5201 That too. :)
@@johnmcginnis5201 in the same single day
But it is. He and his wingmen are flying over burning Kaga and they then fly towards Akagi.
Brilliant piece of work. Artistic!
Have you read "The Battle of Midway" by Craig L. Symonds? It's an amazing account of this extraordinary battle, tracing all the intersecting lines of action that converged on the most mindblowing 5 minutes in military history (IMHO). The amazing "Shattered Sword" (by Jonathan Parshall & Anthony P. Tully) is even more meticulously researched and detailed but I personally prefer the narrative flow that Symonds presents. Awesome animation btw. I came for Starship renders and here I am watching Midway LOL!
Yeah, I’ve read (or more accurately listened to) both of those books!
Sure and I agree it was an important, critical victory...but the Battle of the Coral Sea prevented the attack against and set up for the invasion of Australia. If I were asked which battle was more pivotal I'd have to say Midway, but the Battle of the Coral Sea saved Australia and set up the Battle of Midway.
@@brianfoley4328 Agreed. Coral Sea was a strategic US victory and that was the beginning of the end of Japanese naval dominance.
Read "Shattered Sword" with extreme caution. The authors left much pertinent information out of their work which directly contradicts the central revelation of their book- namely, that all of the Japanese attack aircraft were in the hangars of the carriers when the dive bomber attack began. Only Akagi had all of her attack aircraft in her hangars. Additionally, their primary source- Senshi Sosho- is 'not' the official history which they claim it to be, as it was neither commissioned nor endorsed by the Japanese government. In fact, Senshi Sosho predominantly represents the view of Japanese veterans.
They asked for it,
and THEY GOT IT!
Great animation, need IJN bugles sounding, the alarms were solid!
Great video.
Amazing Videos Guys, keep it up!
Good job showing the results of the bomb drops.
From the hit and near misses, the 3 planes dove in formation or close to it.
Best was the only hit, the center plane.
His wingman to the left missed off the bow, his wingman to the right a VERY near miss at the stern near the rudders.
Best's hit set off the raging fires, the near miss at the rudders doing a lot of damage to the steering gear with Akagi becoming unmanageable.
3 pilots doomed the Akagi, quite a feat.
Kaga got attacked by all the rest, a deluge of bombs.
Great work!
Awesome!
Young Japanese and American men in June 1942=Fighting each other in a fight to the death over an ocean full of sharks.
Seriously, my hat is off to the guys on both sides.
I wish someone could recreate all these naval battles with this animations 😢 looks so realistic!
Great work
As far as I remember, the SBDs carried the blue and white star roundels on both wings, not just the left, in June 1942.
You are correct, that stood out to me also. The only American planes at Midway marked like this were some of the B-17s that flew from Midway. Watch John Fords Battle of Midway. Some of the early B17s (green over grey) have the February 26 1941 insignia (meatball painted out) in 4 positions, while others have the updated 6 position markings. The "Hawaiian Camouflaged" planes all have the 6 position markings and one clearly as the tail stripes painted out. Video has great closeups of markings as well as the Marine Vindicators with various markings. Note Vindicator #2 which was flown by Captain Richard Fleming during his attack on IJN Mikuma. He and gunner KIA, received MoH.
Damn good animation!
A very good CGI sequence.
Impressive smoke and fire 🔥
Awesome one guys!
Bro that was so cool
Dick Best- One bomb; One ship. Dead center! He was the man! Oxygen or not!
Excellent! I appreciate the accurate portrayal of how widely spaced the ships of the Japanese fleet were. Some depictions show them all tightly bunched.
i don't belive it, i just don't belive it
You're so underrated
He Is backkk
That checker artifact on the water is interesting... what software is this? At a guess I would say Blender. Love the vids BTW.
Great video! However, unlike the US Navy, the Japanese still did not have radar installed on their aircraft carriers, which proved fatal in the Battle of Midway!
As predicted by the USN and RN in interwar war games(when ship borne radar wasn't yet a thing), visual lookouts and CAP didnt provide enough warning time to reinforce the CAP enough against a carrier strike
Their only two radar machines were on two battleships in the Aleutian operation.
Thanks.
I see you used Filmstro music. Great work.
There were no aircraft on Akagi's flight deck when Lt. Best dropped his 1000 lb bomb.
There were a few aircraft on the deck preparing to rotate into Akagi's Combat Air Patrol. What there wasn't was a "deck full of planes" as described by Fuchida.
I like that you also put weber's tendency to drift out of formation.
And also could you do an animation for the kaga too?
This is an insane and epic video! Its also one of the only on youtube featuring Richard Best during Midway, his heroic actions were incredible at the battle of midway
Where was the continued explosions & fires subsequent to the bomb hit on the deck? I couldn't even tell they had been hit.
Read the Shattered Sword by Jon Parshall. Great account
do a video on castle itter next
a very interesting story
Absolutely amazing! Makes me want to play civ 5. Also, thanks for uploading in 21:9. Can't tell you how frustrating it is when people create/film stuff in 21:9, then reduce it to 16:9 and throw in black bars. The struggles of an ultrawide monitor user...
わずか数分の映像ですが、凄いですね…。
Except the Dauntless didn't sound like a Piper Cub.
Mistake: a Zero on the deck with one blue stripe, which is a mark of Soryu. Akagi planes had one red stripe. Otherwise great job and worthy subject.
Cool!
Sorry to pick nits. But a ship as large and heavy as a aircraft carrier leaves a much larger wake. Hell a "tin can" at speed kicksup one heck of a wake.
Wow
Incredible
Better than the latest Hollywood flick
At this time- the US Navy had the insignia on 6 places ( both wings top and bottom) and fuselage
But all that aside
More please !
Well done! Can I ask how long it takes for a video of this length?
Depends, this one took a few months because it was a very complex scene.
@@CbassProductions o_o man thats impressive . Gudluck
Hi can u make on Hiryu, Kaga and Soryu? pls
Друг, я тебя не знаю, но спасибо за эту историю, на небе во время войны тоже были рыцари у которых есть честь!!! Ещё раз спасибо!)
"Don't let this carrier escape!"
Left out the part where he initially started to dive on a different carrier but pulled up because too many planes were already diving on it
Coral Sea was at best a draw for the IJN.
Tactical win, strategic loss for the IJN.
This is how midway movie should have been
how long will this take?/how much does it cost to make?
Great animation. Dive bombers are beautiful planes. USA kicked their ass at Midway. Remember Pearl Harbor! 🇺🇸
Worlds luckiest Battle - Maybe only surpassed by Gettysburg ( just my opinion) ?
This is some of the best best shit I've seen absolutely amazing I fought in Iraq and Afghanistan numerous times and could attest I lived a life that 100s of millions of so called Americans haven't a clue to be and see some real shit best years of my life SEMPER FIDELIS USMC SGT Matthew z
Win win! Now you can sell us TVs and cars.
The dive bombers allowed an average of 7 seconds between each plane's run. Why can't anyone ever get this correct?
my dad was there he also missed pearl fight by three hours
Not exactly like the latest movie ? 🤔
how do you fatally damage a non living piece of floating metal
Attack on the Yamato pls
epik
His wingman dropped his bomb just off the rear off the carrier which caused enough battle damage to the rudder to keep it circling and this was left out! Why?
That bomb is in the video. It’s the one that bends the rear portion of the flight deck up. The shockwave from that bomb jammed the rudder into the right hand evasive turn the Akagi was in during the attack.
The AKAGI was 855 feet long, in this animation, the full length passes the camera in 6 seconds, that 855/6 = 142.5 feet per second, in one hour she would have gone 513,000 feet or 97.16 miles, in an hour, her listed top speed unladen was 36.2 mph so this animation has her going 3 times faster than possible, when unladen, and she was laden. your welcome, signed, reality checking in (also the planes dove with the sun behind them)
The camera was also moving very quickly in the opposite direction of the ship in that shot, that's where the additional speed comes from.
Actually they cared less about the sun than diving into the wind.
Kaga? Pls pls?
A small but important inaccuracy...while most historians assign the "turning of the tide" to Midway, the Battle of the Coral Sea, while a tactical Japanese victory, was actually a strategic victory for the Allies.
So basically Coral Sea was a split decision
私は、空母赤城が大好きです！
急降下爆撃機の爆弾と魚雷で撃沈されました。
bro the plane was wrong cause if the scope is in top that is tbd they use torpedo the dive one has scope in the middle of cokpick
Dick Best made the most successful torpedo hit on Nagumo’s carrier.
LOL Japan LOST WW2 at Midway,,,, Never recovered from LOSING 4 carriers + one in the South Pacific,, Soo sad, It took Japan 1 year to build a carrier
IMHO the Japanese lost WW2 at Pearl Harbor. There was no way that they could win against the industrial might of the US and they underestimated the US resolve to avenge what they considered a treacherous attack.
Hello
nice. Pity about the repeating water texture though.
They lost at coral sea
But why the stupid little tune!?
Dusty Kleiss
eh
Only the Hiryu had an island on the port side. Akagi's should be on the starboard.
Akagi's island was also on the port side. It was thought that moving the island away from the starboard smokestacks might improve flight operations.
Hahaha SBDs were good, but sure not Stukas : attack with 90 degree angle is only in your baby dream simulation 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 very poor realism and not truth
What's that? I can't hear you over the Zeros I'm killing!
I read somewhere that the SBD pointed 90 degrees straight down, but the lift from the wings made the actual trajectory about 70 degrees. Can't recall the reference.
@@Hunpecked yes sure like (note that) Hollywood PRODUCTS . if you understand ..........
Those fellows did dive at 90 degrees. The SBD was one of the most rugged airframes ever.
Amazing work!